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GLASGOW CATHEDRAL, 

THURSDAY, 19th SEPTEMBER, 1901, 

AT 12 NOON. 

Ordained by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of 

Qlasgow. 









©rber of ©fficial procession. 



■ THE CITY OFFICERS, WITH HALBERTS. 

THE COUNCIL OFFICER. 

THE LORD PROVOST, MAGISTRATES, AND COUNCILLORS OF THE CITY. 

THE FOREIGN CONSULS. 

REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA. 

THE SHERIFFS OF THE COUNTY. 

THE CLYDE NAVIGATION TRUSTEES. 

THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT OF CITY AND DISTRICT. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF UNIVERSITY COURT. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF UNIVERSITY SENATE. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF MERCHANTS' HOUSE. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF TRADES' HOUSE. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF FACULTY OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. 

REPRESENTA-TIVESyflF FACULTY OF PROCURATORS. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF GLASGOW SCHOOL BOARD. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF GOVAN SCHOOL BOARD. 
REPRESENTATIVE OF MARYHILL SCHOOL BOARD. 
REPRESENTATIVE OF CATHCART SCHOOL BOARD. 
REPRESKNTATIVE OF EASTWOOD SCHOOL BOARD. 
REPRESENTATIVE OF s'PRINGBURN SCHOOL BOARD. 
REPRESENTATIVES OF GLASGOW PARISH COUNCIL. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF GOVAN PARISH COUNCIL. 

REPRESENTATIVE OF CATHCART PARISH COUNCIL. 

REPRESENTATIVE OF EASTWOOD PARISH COUNCIL. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DIRECTORS. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF COURT HOUSES COM.MISSIONERS. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF. THE EXHIBITION. 



At the conclusion of the Service the entire official body will retire from the Church in the same order. 
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Rev. PEARSQN M'ADAM MUIR, D.D., 
Minister of the Cathedral. 

Rev. .THOMAS MARTIN, B.D., 
Minister of the Barony. 

Rev. ANDREW LEIPER, B.D., 

MlNISTEJi OF GoRBAES. 

Rev. ANDREW GILLISON, M.A., 
Minister of the United Free Church, Maryhill. 

Rev. ALEX. KIRKLAND, 
Minister of Kent Road United Free Church. 

Rev. J. WILLIAMS BUTCHER, 
Minister -of Claremont Street Wesleyan Church. 



Organist an£i Cboirmastcr, ■ - mr. Herbert walton, 

Cathedral Organist. 



®r&er of Sennce. 



Deab /IDarcb in Saul. 



Ipavapbrase 2. 



O God of Bethel ! by whose hand 

Thy people still are fed ; 
Who through this weary pilgrimage 

Hast all our fathers led : 
Our vows, our pray'rs, we now present 

Before Thy throne of grace : 
God of our fathers ! be the God 

Of their succeeding race. 



Through each perplexing path of life 

Our wand'ring footsteps guide ; 
Give us each day our daily bread, 

And raiment fit provide. 
O spread Thy cov'ring wings around, 

Till all our wand'rings cease, 
And at our Father's lov'd abode 

Our souls arrive in peace. 



Such blessings from Thy gracious hand 
Our humble pray'rs implore ; 

And Thou shall be our chosen God, 
And portion evermore. 



Amen. 



prater — Rev. .Andrew Leiper, B.D. 
(Concluding vsrith Lord's Prayer). 

Almighty and everlasting God, who sendest forth Thy spirit and we 
are created, and who takest away our breath and we die and return to the 
dust, we bow with reverence before Thy inscrutable judgments, remember- 
ing that Thou, who orderest all things according to Thine own will in 
heaven and earth, art also our merciful and loving Father, who dost not 
willingly afflict or grieve the children of men. but dost correct us that we 
may be partakers of Thy holiness. Clouds and darkness are round about 
Thee ; but justice and judgment are the habitation of Thy throne ; mercy 
and truth go before Thy face. What Thou doest we know not now, but 
we shall know hereafter. We bless Thee for the light and the hope which 
we have in this hour of world-wide sorrow. We cannot read the heart, but 
we rejoice in the confidence that Thy servant whom we mourn was taithful 
to his trust, that he rests in Thee, that he is committed to the dust in the 



sure and certain hope of a resurrection to everlasting life, through Jesus 
Christ our Lord, in whose name and word we pray : 

Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy king- 
dom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this 
day our daily bread. And forgive us oiir trespasses, as we forgive them 
that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us 
from evil : for Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever 
and ever. Amen. 



psalm 90. 




1. Lord, Thou hast been' our | dwelling | place || in' | all | gener | ations. 

2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst 
formed the ea'rth | and the | world, j| even from everlasting to ev'er | 
lasting, I Thou art | God. 

3. Thou turnest man | to de | struction ; |1 and say'est, Re | turn, ye | 
children of | men. 

4. For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yes'terday | when it is | 
past, II and as' a | watch | in the j night. 

5- Thou carriest them away as with a flood; * they' are | as a | sleep: || 
in the morning they are like' j grass which I groweth j up. 

6. In the morning it flour'isheth and j groweth j up ; jj in the eve'ning 
it is I cut I down, and | withereth. 

7. Forweareconsum'ed | by Thine | anger, || and by' Thy | wrath | are 
we I troubled. 

8. Thou hast set our ini'quities be | fore | Thee, || our secret sins' in 
the I light I of Thy j countenance. 

9. For all our days are pass'ed away j in Thy j wrath : || we spend our 
years' as a j tale | that is j told. 

10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; * and if by 
reason of strength' they be | fourscore | years, || yet is their strength labour 
and sorrow ; * for it is soon cut off', j and we j fly a j way. 



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11. Who knoweth the power 
Thy fear', | so | is Thy | wrath. 

12. So teach us to | number our | days 
hearts I unto I wisdom. 



of Thine I ancrer? il even according to 



that we may apply' our | 
§ 13. Return', O | Lord, how | long? || and let it repent Th'ee con | 
with Thy j mercy ; || that we may rejoice' and 



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cerning | thy | servants. 

14. O satisfy us ear'ly 
glad I all our | days. 

15. Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast' af | flicted | 
and the years' where | in we | have seen | evil. 

16. Let Thy work appear' | unto Thy | servants, I| and' Thy | glory | 
unto their | children. 

t 17. And let the beauty of the Lord our God' | be up | on us ; || and 
establish Thou the work of our hands upon us ; * yea, the work' of our | 
hands es I tablish Thou 1 it. 



Xesson from tbe ©15 "Cestament— Job xiv. 



iftymn 241. 



Nearer, my God, to Thee, 

Nearer to Thee ! 
E'en though it be a cross 

That raiseth me. 
Still all my song shall be, 
Nearer, my God, to Thee, — 

Nearer to Thee ! 

Thouijh like the wanderer, 
Daylight all gone. 

Darkness be over me. 
My rest a stone ; 

Yet in my dreams I'd be 

Nearer, my God, to Thee, — 
Nearer to Thee 1 



There let the way apnear 
Steps unto heaven ; 

All that Thou send'st to me, 
In mercy given ; 

Angels to beckon me 

Nearer, my God, to Thee, — 
Nearer to Thee I 

Then with my waking tluiughts 
Bright with Thy praise. 

Out of my stony griefs 
Bethel I'll raise ; 

So by my woes to be 

Nearer, my God, to Thee, — 
Nearer to Thee ! 



Or if on joyful wing. 

Cleaving the sky, 
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, 

Upward I fly ; 
Still, still, my song shall be, 
Nearer, my God, to Thee, — 

Nearer to Thee ! 



Amen. 



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Xcsson from tbe IKlew Testament— i Cor xv. 35-58. 



IPra^Cr — Rev. Andrew Gillison, M.A. 
(Intercessmn). 

Almighty God, who hast wounded us by the late heavy and dreadful 
visitation, now, in the midst of judgment, remember mercy, we humbly 
beseech Thee. 

Be favourable, O Lord, be favourable to Thy people, who turn to 
Thee weeping, fasting, and praying. For Thou art a merciful God, full of 
compassion, long suffering, and of great pity. Spare Thy |jeople, Good 
Lord, spare them, and let not Thy heritage be brought to confusion. 

Most heartily do we tiiank Thee that Thou didst give to Thy people 
across the seas a leader so wise and upright, so simple and sincere, so 
faithful and godly. We bless Thee for all the influence for good that 
Thou didst permit Thy servant to exercise amongst so great a nation : 
and that, having died a martyr's death, he now rests from his labours. 

And new we humbly beseech Thee that Thou, who art a Husband to 
the widow and a Father to the fatherless, wilt comfort the widow who is in 
so deep distress this day, and Thy people who mourn as children who are 
bereft of a father. 

Most gracious God, we humbly beseech Thee for the people of the 
United States of America, and especially for their Senate and Representa- 
tives in Congress, that Thou wouldst be pleased to direct and prosper 
their consultations to the advancement of Thy glory, the good of Thy 
church, the safety, honour, and welfare of Thy peoiile ; tiiat all things may 
be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest 
foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, 
may be established among them for all generations. So replenisli them 
with the grace of I'hy Holy Spirit, that they may always incline to Thy 
will, and walk in Thy way. Endue them plenteously with heavenly gifts, 
and grant them finally to attain everlasting joy : through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. 

Most humbly do we pray Thee to bless our King, his Queen Consort, 
the Royal Family, and all the Members of both Houses of Parliament. 
Grant that those who make our laws may have Thy law written in their 
hearts. Remember with Thy favour the Lord Provost and Magistrates of 
this City, and abundantly bless all their efforts for thi- wellbeing of our 
people : tiirough Jesus Christ our Lord, to whotii with Thee the Father 
and the Holy Spirit be all honour and glory evermore. Amen. 



Hntbem. 

I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, from henceforth, 
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, even so, saith the Spirit, for 
they rest from their labour and then worlcs do follow them. 



Ipl'aycr — Rev. Thomas Martin, B.D. 
(Thanksgiving). 
Almighty and eternal God, in Thy hand our breath is. Thine are all 
our ways. In Thee we live and move and have our being. 

We would this day humble ourselves in heartfelt thanksgivings before 
Thee, O Most High, and praise Thee as the source of every good and 
perfect gift that enriches the life of the children of men. In Thee and 
through Thee all nations of the earth are blessed, and we would praise Thy 
namf. Thou Great Preserver of Men. 

We bless Thee tiiat, amid darkness, error, and confusion, all peoples 
may guide themselves by Thy truth, and walk surely and steadfastly in the 
light of the Lord. 

We bless Thee that when men and nations seek Thee in their sins or 
sorrows Thou art found of them, and that by Thee they are healed and 
comforted and confirmed. 

We bless Thee that, amid all change and wickedness and war in the 
world. Thou dost grant us the pi.,wer to believe that Thy faithfulness is the 
same yesterday and to-day and for ever ; and that, in guiding on kingdoms 
to great issues, Thou dost make even the wrath of man to praise Thee. 

We bless Thee that Thou dost never leave the peoples of the earth 
without witnesses of Thyself, in that Thou dost raise up men, strong to 
guide and wise to govern in the fear of Thee ; and that Thou dost give 
them faith to suffer and die, if need be, because it is "God's way" for them. 
Above all, we bless Thee that Thou hast revealed Thyself to us 
through Thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whose spirit Thou art 
drawing men closer together in the bonds of love, and teachmg the nations 
to bear one another's burdens. 

And, O God, as this day we mourn in sympathy with the people of 
that great land beyond the sea, and grieve for the evil deed that has 
brought to them calamity, yet do we realise that Thy spirit is binding us 
together and purifying us through a common sorrow. 

Do Thou now, Father of all, unite us here assembled, and all peoples 
who like us are met, that we may thankfully feel that Thy good hand is 
over the world, turning its sorrow into joy and its darkness into day, 
through the spirit of Thy Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 



Ibpmu 221. 



My God and Father, while I stray 
Far from my home on life's rough way, 

teach me from my heart to say, 

" Thy will be done." 

Though dark my path and sad my lot, 
Let me be still and murmur not ; 
But breathe the prayer divinely taught, 
" Thy win be done." 

If Thou should'st call me to resign 
What most I prize — it ne'er was mine ; 

1 only yield Thee what is Thine ; 

" Thy will he done." 

What though in lonely grief I sigh 
For friends beloved no longer nigh ! 
Submissive would I still reply, 
" Thy will be done." 



Should pining sickness waste away 
My life in premature decay ; 
My Father, still I'd strive to say, 
" Thy will be done." 

If but my fainting heart be blest 
With Thy free Spirit for its guest ; 
My God, to Thee I leave the rest, — 
" Thy will be done." 

Renew n;y will from day to day ; 
Blend it with Thine, and take away 
All that now makes it hard to say, 
" Thy will be done." 

Then, when on earth I breathe no more 
The prayer, oft mixed with tears before, 
I'll sing upon a happier shore, 
" '1 hy will be done." 

Amen. 



Hb&ress. 

By the Rev. Dr. M'Adam Muir. 

"Not my will, but Thine, be done." — 5/. Luke xxii. 42. 

No words are needed to utter what is in our hearts. So much has 
already been said, so well and so fittingly, in public and in private, in 
newspapers, on platforms, and in pulpits, regarding the late President of 
the United States of America, that to-day our feelings can be best 
expressed in prayers and psalms and hymns, and little remains to be 
added. Seldom, if ever, has our country been so stirred by the death of a 
ruler of another land. We were appalled and indignant when first we read 
the news of the attempted assassination of the President. A load was 
lifted from our minds when we were assured there was no cause for serious 
anxiety. The announcement that graver symptoms were showing them- 
selves, that there was no hope of his recover)', that he had actually 
passed away, came upon us with overwhelming force, and the sympathy 
of the whole empire has found vent in a manner almost, if not 
altogether, unprecedented in the case of one so distant. The circum- 
stances of his tragic death have done much to disclose the nobility of 
his character, iiave deepened the universal sorrow and enhanced his fame. 



If the miscreant who perpetrated the nefarious crime imagined that 
he would arouse the people to fight for the liberty which is lawlessness 
and anarchy he made a fatal mistake. He has forfeited all sympathy, he 
has helped the world to understand the frenzied folly and the wanton 
wickedness of the cause which he represents. He has tended for the 
moment to create a prejudice even against those who are simply resisting 
tyranny and oppression, or who are earnestly labouring for the removal of 
blemishes in our social system. He has raised against himself and his 
associates fierce and determined resentment, not only on the part of 
authorities and governments, but on the part of the multitude in every 
civilised community. Instead of being everywhere hailed as a deliverer, 
he would be everywhere viewed as a monster, and the order which he was 
impotently striving to overthrow is only the more firmly established. 
Ruler after ruler has of recent years fallen a victim to the vengeance of 
personal enemies or of mysterious societies ; and while ostensibly the 
object of the assassination has been the dethronement and destruction of 
tyranny, in almost every case the victim has been one who, far from being 
tyrannical and cruel, has been specially seeking the welfare of the people 
committed to his charge. We think of the wise and spotless Abraham 
Lincoln ; of the brave and patient Garfield ; of the upright and moderate 
President Carnot, of France ; the humane and liberal Alexander II., 
Emperor of Russia ; the gentle and amiable Empress of Austria ; the 
patriotic and sympathetic King of Italy — all slain by misguided and 
infatuated men ; while attempts, which have fortunately failed, on the lives 
of others equally beloved and revered have not been wanting. And now 
we mourn the death of President M'Kinley. He has fallen by the hand 
of one to whom he had done no wrong, who could bear him no personal 
ill-will, but who saw in him the representative of that law and order which, 
even in the form of a republic, must be abhorred and overthrown. That 
a man who, the more that is known of him, grows in our admiration and 
esteem, should be singled out for assassination, everywhere adds to the 
shuddering wrath with which the news of the execrable crime has been 
received. The glimpses which have been afforded us in these latter days 
of his character and life have raised him high in the affection and 
reverence of the world. It was generally confessed that his public career 
was spotless and honourable ; that his bitterest opponents could not accuse 
him of self-seeking or venality; that his integrity and sterling worth, as well 
as his tact and administrative ability, made him a tower of strength to his 
party and to his country ; but not till he lay upon his death-bed was 
it known abroad how lofty were the prmciples by which he was guided, 
how deep was his devotion, how intense was his faith. Last words 



do not always merit the importance which is attached to them. They 
are sometimes invested with a meaning which they cannot bear. 
The utterances of physical suffering are identified with spirituil 
longings ; the utterances of mental wandering are identified with intel- 
lectual insight and heavenly vision ; the homeliest comment on the most 
ordinary theme is endowed with mystic significance. But there are 
instances in which the dying accents convey the lessons of the life, 
and may well be treasured up as a message from the higher world. 
There was a thorough accord between the life which President M'Kinley 
had led and the broken sentences which the loving watchers by his 
bedside were able at intervals to catch from his lips. All along his 
spirit, if ever the spirit of any man, was " true to the kindred points of 
heaven and home." Now he was thinking of others, and especially of 
her whose name will be for ever associated with his, how she could be 
upheld and comforted. Now he could be heard softly repeating — 
"Nearer, my God, to Thee: nearer to Thee: e'en though it be a Cross 
that raiseth me;" "Lead Kindly Light," "There's a wideness in God's 
mercy, like the wideness of the sea ; " and last of all, like an echo from 
Gethsemane, came the sigh of perfect resignation, '■ It is God's way ; 
His will, not ours, be done." The will of God was his hope in death, 
as it had been his stay and guide in life. The will of God be done. 
It is not only what the dying President said ; it is all that we ourselves 
can say. We are not only filled with horror at the deed by which he 
has been snatched from his home and from his country, but we are 
staggered by the mystery of it all. Why should such things be allowed ? 
Why should so often the lives which are most useful and beneficent be 
cut short? All that we can meanwhile do or say is to bow beneath 
the mighty hand of God, remembering our ignorance, and assureii that 
He doeth all things well. Even amid the darkness by which we are 
encompassed, we have light enough to see that he whom we are mourning 
has not died in vain either for himself or for others. " Ah me ! " so 
wrote Longfellow when exactly twenty years ago to-day President Garfield 
entered into rest : — 

" Ah me ! How dark the discipline of pain, 
Were not the suffering followed by the sense 
Of infinite rest and infinite release ! 
This is our consolation ; and, again, 
A great sou! cries to us in our suspense, 
' I came from martyrdom unto this peace.' " 



And with even more startling appropriateness may we apply to President 
M'Kihley the lines which another great American poet, AVilliam CuUen 
Bryant, addressed to President Lincoln : — 

" In sorrow by the bier we stand, 
Amid tlie awe that hushes all. 
And speak the anguish of a land 
That shook with horror at thy fall. 



" Pure was thy life ; its bloody close 

Hath placed thee with the sons of light. 
Among the noble host of those 

Who perished in the cause of Right. '' 

One further blessing may we not see emerging from this terrible calamity. 
Will no,t the bonds which connected the United States and us be rendered 
stronger? It is certainly in no calculating spirit, it is without thought of 
political consequences, that messages of condolence have been sent across 
the sea from this land and from other lands : it is the free, spontaneous 
expression of grief at the removal of one so great and good in a manner 
so base and foul, of sympathy with her to whom he ministered with such 
loving care, and with the nation which he served so faithfully. Times of 
common sorrow bind peoples as well as individuals more closely together. 
We in Britain were unspeakably touched by the fellow-feeling which 
America showed in our great national bereavement. Shall we not earnestly 
hope and pray that, in this new sorrow which has so conspicuously knit our 
hearts in one, there is an augury of ever-growing friendship between these 
great nations, in whose alliance and co-operation must lie a precious 
guarantee for the peace and prosperity of the whole world ? And, for 
ourselves individually, shall we not each one, in whatsoever condition we 
are placed, be it prominent or be it obscure, seek more earnestly to follow 
the faith which was the inspiration of the President alike in his life and in 
his death, that we may strenuously do the will of our Heavenly Father in 
our seasons of vigour and activity, and that we may accept it with patience 
and resignation in the hour when heart and flesh shall faint and fail. 



Ibsmn 262. 



For all the saints, who from their labours rest, 
Who Thee by faith before the world confessed. 
Thy name, O Jesus, be for ever blest. 
Hallelujah ! 



Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might ; 
Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight ; 
Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true light. 
Hallelujah ! 

O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold. 
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old, 
And win, with thetn, the victor's crown of gold. 
Hallelujah ! 

O blest communion, fellowship divine ! 
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine ; 
Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine. 
Hallelujah ! 

And, when the strife is fierce, the warfare long, 
Steals on the ear the distant triumph-song. 
And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong 
Hallelujah ! 

The golden evening brightens in the west ; 
Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest : 
Sweet is the calm of Paradise the blest. 
Hallelujah ! 

But, lo ! there breaks a yet more glorious day : 
The saints triumphant rise in bright array ; 
The King of Glory passes on His way. 
Hallelujah ! 

From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's furthest coast. 
Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host. 
Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Hallelujah ! 

Amen. 



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